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[Oneir]

I got...I think almost exactly halfway through Seveneves before I got too frustrated by the antagonists (and peoples' reactions to the antagonists) to keep going. His books usually do that for me -- they'll manage some really interesting ideas, strung together with distracting obsessions with some random detail (captain crunch, great circle flight paths, how often the characters need to pee...), and occasionally getting something just plain wrong. (See: people who don't play video games trying to design very complicated, simulationist MMOs.)

I really should give Seveneves another try because everyone seems to love it.

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Though the "self-serving politician transparently lying through their teeth" trope is probably going to be even more frustrating to read nowadays...

[Levi]

I'm still reading Harry Potter.  Its crazy!    Cray cray random spoilers below.

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Neville gouged out somebodies eye with Hermione's wand! 

A Death Eater had just his head sent back in time so we was wandering around with a baby head and I'm pretty sure it was the most horrifying thing ever.

Voldemort is pretty inbred on his mothers side!

Snape somehow still hasn't been fired for being horrible to his students.  Wizard child protection laws seem to be well behind Muggle child protection laws.

Slughorn seems to be the only person from house Slytherine that isn't blatantly evil. 

Somehow it isn't standard practice to get people to roll up their sleeves to see if they have a death eater tattoo.  I guess wizard privacy laws are pretty strict!

[TheBiggerFish]

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Wait, what about the Death Eater?

[Levi]

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In the halls of mysteries when they were fighting all those death eaters, one of them fell into some kind of time-sphere and came out of it with a baby head.  He was just crying and bumping into walls and shit.  I think seeing that would have traumatized me for life.

[TheBiggerFish]

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Oh huh.  I might have to reread that.

[Levi]

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I found fan art.

[Tomasque]

 Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities! I love it so much. It's surreal and melancholy - a combination I've been looking for for so long. The way the chapters are written, the way the cities are described, and even the context of the story feels so unique and interesting.

 You can read it here.

[MoonyTheHuman]

somehow failes to notice this

[Starver]

somehow failes to notice this

(In response to your "I'm reading Small Gods", that you have now blanked on the other thread...)

A good standalone, in the series, that one, IMO.  (Noting that there's callbacks to the book in the later Carpe Jugulum, but it's not a major link.)

I can, and may yet, gush all rhapsodical about Discworld, in general, but that'd be boring for others.  Willing to discuss (spoilered?) specifics, though, if you wish.


Currently, I've got The Long War (#2 in the Baxter/Pratchett Long Earth series) in mid-read as my "bathroom book", I'm going through the Ryanverse books (Tom Clancy) in non-chronological order, Uplift (David Brin) started and Anciliary Sword (#2 in the Ancilliary trilogy by Ann Leckie) almost ready to start in a different "book queue", as notable (or at least currently memorable) other examples of current/imminent reading.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Speaking of Sir Terry, I've been reading Good Omens for practically forever. Great fun... though I find myself almost studying it rather than reading it. Very well written indeed.

[NRDL]

Fallen in love with the "Worm" web serial.  Best superhero fiction I've seen yet.

[Arx]

Worm is very good.

I'm re-reading the Stormlight Archives. One of these days, Sanderson will publish book three.

[JoshuaFH]

I've started reading The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, and A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I'm quite liking both.

[JoshuaFH]

I've been on a bit of a Buddhist bent lately. I read "An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life" by the Dalai Lama  and "Siddartha" by Herman Hesse. I don't feel I fully grasped what the Dalai Lama had to say in his book. About Siddartha, I feel that the author kind of fictioned up a character that one-ups the genuine Buddha, but I was still so impressed and entertained by the book that I looked up his other works, and now I'm reading "Steppenwolf" by the same guy.

Steppenwolf very accurately describes how I genuinely feel in day to day life. So often I feel like an alien hiding among normal humans, and it feels so wonderful to finally find someone who 'speaks the same language as I do', so to speak. So yeah, I'm quite engrossed in it and will probably be finishing it up pretty quickly.

[NJW2000]

"Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the American Right", Thomas Frank

Bit dated now, but interesting exploration of Tea Party/Free Market focus in US right-wing ideology that came up briefly in response to the financial crisis. Slightly helpful in understanding how right-wing ideology works, but ultimately not as good as a book about Trump and his backers. Not really the author's fault, very much a book of its time.